Too much Syria and Snowdon-Discussion here. So before we all together fall into depression I want to share my pride and joy with you.

I'm just sitting with a glass of my best red wine and looking at the picture of Benjamin, my very first grandchild born a few hours ago. I feel that this event is one more important mile-stone in my life and I remember when Myriam, my older daughter, was born 31 years ago. A lot had been happen in these years. She was a little cute baby like this one and the time goes by and now she had doctored in law and acts as a judge. Then my thoughts went to my younger daughter who lives in New Zealand and is going to make me a Grandpa too in February next year.

Getting old in a few hours is a nice way to age; the other way takes a lot of time and comes with its own load of problems, so be happy for your way. The only way you don't age is if you are terminally unlucky.

Congrats, Indeed! Grandkids are great - you can get 'em all wound up and then send them back to their parents... spoil 'em rotten without feeling guilty about it... Our two oldest grandkids started school this year. Tempus fugit.

Mike.

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If your mind is attuned to beauty, you find beauty in everything.~ Jean Cooke ~

Even better: in a few decades let's hope we can congratulate him for being an old granddad! Then it's even better: they start to feel nice, kindly and over-considerate towards you. Then, exact revenge for that careless moment of prematurely old-ageing you!

Even better: in a few decades let's hope we can congratulate him for being an old granddad! Then it's even better: they start to feel nice, kindly and over-considerate towards you. Then, exact revenge for that careless moment of prematurely old-ageing you!

Well, I never had wrinklles until I became a granddad; before that I had character lines, just like Gary Cooper.

(The Duke never had character lines like that; he was always like Robert Mitchum: apparently asleep on his feet. However, as teenagers in long trousers, we all used to try to walk like Robert Mitchum. We even wore our shirt collars up.)

Only joking. Congratulations from me too. We have three grandchildren now and I'm 'only' 51. They are great but remember they seem to grow fast so see them as much as you can. It was quite a moment when the eldest, George, started saying "grandpa Jim...." Made me feel my age then. George once asked whether my mother in law (his great-grandmother) was the sister of my wife (his grandmother). Now that really makes you realise that to a child even 50 is old - he couldn't tell the difference between 50 and 80!

Only joking. Congratulations from me too. We have three grandchildren now and I'm 'only' 51. They are great but remember they seem to grow fast so see them as much as you can. It was quite a moment when the eldest, George, started saying "grandpa Jim...." Made me feel my age then. George once asked whether my mother in law (his great-grandmother) was the sister of my wife (his grandmother). Now that really makes you realise that to a child even 50 is old - he couldn't tell the difference between 50 and 80!Jim

I'm giving myself a few years on that one, but hope the same logic will still apply when (if) I start to get hungry for female companionship again. It obviously seems to work for some old chaps here with yachts...

I wonder if one or three old cameras will spin the same magical suspension of common sense?

I'm giving myself a few years on that one, but hope the same logic will still apply when (if) I start to get hungry for female companionship again. It obviously seems to work for some old chaps here with yachts...

I wonder if one or three old cameras will spin the same magical suspension of common sense?

Rob C

If you looks like Karl Lagerfeld, perhaps. And, of course, if you not only own your cameras but a yacht as well.